Kerman Terrorist Attack Highlights Iranian Intelligence Failures
…Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, leading to potential internal competition and conflicts, which even Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has acknowledged. Former Intelligence Minister Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi claimed that his…
Brian Finlay op-ed in On Think Tanks on Stimson’s Five Star Transparency Rating
Amidst the most contentious, high-stakes, and mean-spirited campaign for U.S. president in decades, it is difficult to overstate the level of political partisanship that has enveloped American policymaking. At once…
2023 Global Artificial Intelligence Infrastructures Report
…plans, the set includes reports and publications from various government departments, ministries, nation commissions, bodies appointed to forward recommendations for specific issues and sectors. Our computer science methodology, specifically Latent…
A Credible Grand Strategy: The Urgent Need to Set Priorities
…to set the terms for others to follow, will clearly require a radical change in mindset. But few Americans appreciate how flexible U.S. foreign policy strategy and tactics have been,…
Engaging Iran: Strategic Goal or Means to an End?
…to change the content and the outcomes as well. But the failure to achieve a breakthrough in the late 1990s must take into account a number of factors, or bumps…
Reinhard Krumm: How Boxed in is Berlin?
…away. So, we have to come up with different content. What is it that unites us? And what is it that doesn’t unite us but that, maybe, we can leave…
Stimson Open Online Course: Nuclear South Asia
…Pakistan, and the United States. Read the full list of course lecturers. Nuclear South Asia is divided into seven chapters comprising 8.5 hours of video content. The course also includes recommended…
China’s Red Sea Play: From Security Free-Rider to Disruption Enabler
…longer content to sit on the sidelines of Red Sea security. On July 2, 2025, a People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) frigate is believed to have directed a laser weapon…